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A/Professor Andrew J. Kornberg MB BS(Hons) Dip TA (ATAA) FRACP
• Director, Department of Neurology, Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville, Victoria
• Associate Professor, Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne
• Associate Professor, Centre of Neuroscience, University of Melbourne
Background
A/Prof Kornberg trained as a paediatric neurologist and completed a Neuromuscular Fellowship working with Dr Alan Pestronk in the United States in St Louis, USA. He has had laboratory and clinical experience in a variety of immune-mediated neurologic syndromes, including Guillain-Barré syndrome, Miller Fisher syndrome, multifocal motor neuropathy, chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP), childhood multiple sclerosis and acute disseminated encephalomyelitis.
A/Professor Kornberg has an interest in neurometabolic disorders including lysosomal storage disorders, mitochondrial disorders and the glycogenoses.
Expertise
• Established the Asia-Pacific IVIG Advisory Board in 2003 and has acted as Chairman since its inception. The Board has published two editions of Consensus Statements on the use of IVIG in neurological disorders based on evidence in the literature.
• Member of the NBA Committee for the establishment of "Criteria for Intravenous Immunoglobulin Use in Australia".
A/Professor Kornberg's other interests include clinical research into the muscular dystrophies and is a member of CINRG (Cooperative International Neuromuscular Research Group), run from Washington DC.